Saturday, August 21, 2004|
For mobile device diversity, does it matter who owns the software?. Finding the right business model is always difficult, and there's always a tendency to stick too closely to a current winning model in the vain assumption that things will never change. [IT-Director.com - Mobile and Wireless] 12:21:55 AM  comment
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The operational cost of mobility. Mobile computing devices, smarter phones and digital cameras are priced like TVs and hi-fi's, for many people that's well within disposable incomes, but these aren't the single simple purchase that most other consumer technology products are. [IT-Director.com - Mobile and Wireless] 12:21:24 AM comment
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Cooper Interaction Design: Well-designed products. A common affliction plaguing many of us interaction designers is the propensity to complain and kvetch about every piece of software on our computers, cell-phones and cars. And it's true--there is a lot of bad software out there. To offset this sometimes irritating tendency to critique and redesign everything we see, I'd like to offer a selection of software that I consider to be truly well-designed. [Tomalak's Realm] 12:18:06 AM comment
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The Possibility of Spectrum as a Public Good. The FCC is considering opening up additional spectrum to unlicensed uses -- the same kind of regulatory change that gave rise to Wifi. Much of the spectrum being considered for unlicensed use is currently allocated for broadcasters, however, so FCC's proposal creates tension between incumbents and groups that want to take advantage of the possibilities inherent in unlicensed spectrum. Most issues the FCC deals with, even contentious ones like limits on the ownership of radio and television stations, are changes within regulatory schemes. The recent proposal to move the maximum media market reach from 35% to 45% took the idea of an ownership cap itself at face value, and involved a simple change of amount. Unlicensed spectrum is different. In addition to all the regulatory complexities, an enormous philosophical change is being proposed. Transmuting spectrum from licensed to unlicensed changes what spectrum is. This change is possible because of advances in the engineering of wireless systems.
This matters, a lot, because with the spread of unlicensed wireless,
the FCC could live up to its mandate of managing spectrum on behalf of
the public, by allowing for and even encouraging engineering practices
that treat spectrum itself as a public good. - More at http://shirky.com/writings/spectrum_public_good.html [Clay Shirky's Essays] |
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